Effi Briest

After a sheltered childhood, 17-year-old Effi, according to her parents' will, marries Baron von Innstetten, almost 20 years older, a childhood friend of her mother, whom she follows after Kessin, a small town on the Baltic Sea. In the baron's somewhat eerie-looking house, the young, imaginative and lively Effi lonely, who finds it difficult to make friends in her new home. Even the birth of her daughter cannot hide her inner loneliness. Much of her husband left alone, Effi, who is actually against the lie, enters into a love relationship with the new district commander Crampas almost against her will, who had long wooed her in vain before. This rather dispassionate relationship ends to Effi's relief when her husband is transferred to Berlin. The time in Berlin is harmonious - until Innstetten by chance finds letters that Crampas had written to Effi during the Kessin period.